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So Adam Lambert is safe enough for stations to feature earlier this week on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," but way too hot for "Jimmy Kimmel Live" or "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve With Ryan Seacrest"?

[Update, Dec. 3, 2009, 1:50 p.m.: Show Tracker reports that a complaint filed with the FCC is indeed at the heart of the ABC cancellations.

According to Show Tracker, the "FCC heat" comes from a complaint filed Nov. 24 by Liberty Counsel against ABC demanding that the network pay a financial penalty "for
airing such an outrageously lewd and filthy performance during a show
and time period that is targeted for family audiences."

See that blog for more details, including an interview with Liberty Counsel's director of cultural affairs.]

And how crazy-scandalous were Adam's raunchy political statements on Ellen's show Monday?

"It was maybe a little too far," he said of his AMA performance. "I think in hindsight I
look back on it and I go, ‘OK, maybe that wasn’t the best first
impression to make, the first second impression.'"

"Rockin' Eve" is, of course, a show that airs late each New Year's Eve (which last time the Ministry checked was an adult-oriented holiday) and is hosted by Ryan Seacrest, who sort of knows Adam a little bit already.